Tess phase 5 (The woman pays) quotes +meanings

“As natural and ghastly as a laugh in hell” chapter 35/36

+angel is turning into Alec, showing how basically men are shit because of how entrenched the patrichaty is into society.

“another woman in your shape”+ ‘a guilty woman in the guise of a innconcet one” chapter 35

+cos angel built up his entire perception of tess on the assumption she’s a virgin, he feels betrayed when she tells him about the rape/sorrow and this illustrates how angel is rly just a wolf in sheep’s clothing

+ao3: madonna whore dichotomy by freud. Tess was the madonna but now she’s a whore and angel’s myfsgony is shown by how easily he makes the shift bewteen the 2.

“a round little hole” chapter 35

+tess is now described as a coprse as the contrast of purity is now gone. he historically liked her mouth, sexualising it, but the shift from the madonna to the whore means that he now sees as dead to him.

“I will obey you like your wretched slave” chapter 35

+the shock means that tess is desperate to win his forgiveness- angel is a big, fat fucking hyproctie. this quote shows it.

+formalizes what she was doing before.

“from this position she crouched in a heap” chapter 35

+she’s very passive to him, now physically literally being on the floor on a Lower level. blind loyalty with comprasions to dog.

“He was no longer passion’s slave” chapter 35

+insuitantes that tess bewitched/lied to him despite fact that she tried to bring it up but angel actively shut the conversation down- showing how deeply indochated he is to the harmful, prejudiced faith he was raised in.

“she was already in the sitting room mechanically readjusting the breakfast things.” chapter 35/36

+she’s very passive and this only reinforces that. they’ve been together for long enough that caring for him has become habit/ routine so this emphasise Angel’s behaviour.

+also: evidence she’s from the old way of life and is being mechanised by angel therefore losing herself to the effects of industrislation ( Alec’s rape).

“She looked absolutely pure” chapter 35/36

+angel feels betrayed as he feels that she delibraty decieved him. women aren’t a monolith group and Angel assumes that a) they are and b)that you see if someone’s a virgin just by looking at them. shows how undeucadted he is.

+links to themes of reality vs image which is a WH link

“You are too,too childish…… you don’t understand the law” chapter 35/36

+ he’s Infantilizatioing her and seeing/treating her as a child.

“Dead! Dead! Dead!” chapter 37

+a) holy trinity and b) pervcives her as dead to him.

“but her mood of long suffering made it easy for him” chapter 37

+the gothic industry emerged outta industislaztion to critique it and put it in a empty grave.

“you little foul!” chapter 37

+joan’s immediate concern with their economic and social status and not her daughter’s feelings about being rejected for telling the truth about her rape to her husband in victorian England.

“began shedding tears on her own account as a mother to be pitied” chapter 37

+joan’s secondary response is to be more slighlty compassionate with her tramutized daughter but she’s still crying for herself.

“who can find a virgin woman”+ “is she spotless” chapter 39

+the Clare family are immediately concerned with tess’s virginity that his parson father immdedialy finds a bible verse. a double standard that didn’t apply to men.

“is she a young woman whose history will bear investigation” chapter 39

+mysgony is so embedded into society that mrs Clare asks this as there’s a very real possibility that she thinks tess was raped.

“yet was slave to custom and connectioability when surprised back into his early teaching” +”hard logical deposit” chapter 39

+his inability to see Tess as a human devolped from his childhood relgious education critiquing religion and the blind belief it encourages.

“a lonely woman” chapter 40

+tess is at her lowest and most depressed now, in the bleakest period of her life and the book. angel broke her.

“new found pulsing life” chapter 42

+it’s the self blame that hurts her more, very similar to workhouse and their intentions.

“I will always be ugly now.”+ “ensured aganist aggerarive self adoration” chapter 42

+the only way to claim back her agency and not be objectified is to uglyfly herself and goes as far as to snip off her own eyebrows.

“two girls crawling over the surface of the former like flies” chapter 43

+flies are small creatures who can’t communicate and have no agency so similar to women especially as flies are also mercifully preyed upon by men. they also happen to be stuck.

“You thought I was in love with ‘ee I suppose? Some women are such fools, to take every look as serious earnest” chapter 43

+Alec makes an unwanted reappearance and then immediately assumes Tess loved him the whole time. links to how working class girls were seen as sexually available.

“birds caught in a clap-net” chapter 43

+she’s trapped with no opportunity to escape so hope is scarce.